Peryton Fantasy Role-Playing Game

With the Peryton Fantasy Role-Playing Game, you can have the quick play and nostalgic familiarity of a retro game without the unwieldy inconsistencies of earlier systems. Alongside the best features of the original fantasy role-playing game, the Peryton RPG offers many innovations of its own, including an easy, intuitive experience system that encourages good role-playing and makes in-game events uniquely relevant to character development.

The Peryton RolePlaying game is built from Open Gaming mechanics and will be immediately familiar to experienced gamers. And thanks to its streamlined design, players new to role-playing will have no trouble jumping in and getting started quickly. No matter what your background, the intuitive and interactive design will seamlessly immerse you in the game.

This revised edition of the Peryton Fantasy Roleplaying Game is a complete system with a full selection of classes, monsters, spells, and treasures, featuring both old favorites and new creations. It also includes an improvisation guide with all the material you need for several instant adventures. Add pencils, paper, dice, and a few friends and you're ready to go!

Some call it D20 Light. Some gripe that it's so much like OD&D that they can get OD&D clones for free. Bah! I call it Light, all right -- Light hearted and fun! What gives PFRPG its edge, is the fun and almost-whimsical tone of the writing. The [...]

Peryton's gimmick is its Knack system, which is a good idea. The book has a decent layout; the cover is it's best art. Because it reads like ODaD, it inherits some of the problems of its "parent". There is some innovation here, but not enough to justify [...]

Two aspects of this retro-d20 game I like: 1. the knacks system--Castles & Crusades could take a page from Peryton here; 2. the write-ups of the Mystic, a class less like the Monk of standard d20 and more like an archetypal guru [Jedi, minus the [...]

d20 Lite, this game uses the d20 system but without skills in a way. It uses whats called knacks, skills you get as you try doing certain things many times between levels, when you say try and ride a horse many times, when you advance to the next level, [...]

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